Georgia Thomson sky sports news flash

Georgia Thomson is actually a name that every Sky Sports news viewers associate with. A part of the Sky Sports Team at since 2001, she is an identity that a person associates with major sporting events. Through the US Open Tennis Championship to the A1 Grand Prix, the Grand Prix Masters, Speedway World Cup, Race of Champions and Americas Cup, she has been there to cover all major sporting events.

Georgia Thomson, popularly often known as Georgie Thompson, lives in Essex. Educated at Queenswood Boarding School, she displayed her fascination with sports at a very young age. She took part in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She proceeded to learn Broadcast Journalism at the University of Leeds graduating in the year 1999. Before moving to Sky Sports in 2001, she worked to be a production assistant at GMTV.

A self confessed motor racing addict, Georgia attributes her attraction to fast cars and motor racing to her father who built a similar passion that he had for cars into his daughter. She believes that A1Grand Prix has the potential to become as popular as the F1. However she also feels that it’s going to take time for this to happen. With multiple channels accessible for viewing, it gets a whole lot tougher to nail viewers if things are not satisfactory enough. Hence she feels that given some time and energy A1 GP has a prospect of becoming as popular as the Formula One.

She defends the A1GP by saying that the competitiveness in A1GP is above anything else. Classifying it is actually as edge of your seat stuff, she says this is what motor racing is about.

Georgia Thomson considers herself as a bit of a spender. Her investments are cautiously managed by her financial advisor that has a big say in deciding her investments. Her three bedroom terraced property in Chelsea cost 500,000. In the present day, the property is estimated at 800,000. Her love for property again extends back into her childhood. Her father profession that of a property developer, ensured that they moved several times, every time to a larger house or even to a renovation project. The transformations that each property underwent drilled into her the desire for climbing up the property ladder.

Aside from property, she’s now begun looking at other investment options including pension funds and makes annual contributions to individual savings accounts. Healthcare is the one other element of investment that she has considered. She has invested in a comprehensive health insurance policy that covers all critical illnesses since there is a history of cancer in her family.

On a lighter note it her Mini Cooper convertible that she loves zipping around in. On the occasional warm and sunny day, she loves to drive around with all the cars hood down and have the wind in her hair.

A prosperous anchorwoman, she has had the privilege of interviewing several stalwarts in sports such as Ian Botham, Sven Goran, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.